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You can't even compare Trump to Douglas sadly. Trump is, truly, a unique figure in politics.

The Mussolini comp is thrown around except Mussolini was the most prominent Italian journalist of his day, spoke fluently in five languages, and fought in the great war.

Mussolini famously never articulated a coherent program "The program is to break the nose of the gentleman from Il Mundo," but he actually had one. Trump truly doesn't have any actual policy. His rhetoric IMPLIES a policy but every time that implication is written down he runs from it.

Also Trump is shockingly stupid. There's no getting around it and there's no better way to say it. He's lazy and stupid. His one great skill is he, more than anyone else, figured out that American politics of the right had become bullshit and incoherent. As such you can just say anything. It doesn't matter as long as you appear to hate the same enemies in the most entertaining way possible.

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